Sentences with phrase «election leadership debates»
[35][36] Seven parties (Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP, SNP, PC and Green) participated in the election leadership debates.
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I'll leave it to others to debate his definitions of liberalism and other political philosophies, and there's a whole other debate to be had about whether his leadership of the Liberal Democrat party was doomed by his Christian faith, as he claims, or his failure to return a higher number of MPs at this year's General Election.
The executive summary of the article concludes: «In preparing for a second election the Tory leadership needs to negotiate for the debates to take place earlier in the campaign; put more money into its ground war; build better relations with the whole of the party and Conservative movement; trust professional polling to test messages; and develop clearer decision - making structures.»
BBC Parliament would be a good choice, if it wasn't for that annoying balance requirement (how about arguing the other parties can also have their leadership election debates televised, they just have to hold a leadership competition...)
The political debate from both left and right was extraordinarily thin in the last leadership election.
You could not have a TV debate onthe labour party election leadership, because no one would watch, and advert space would not pay, just like labour, a dead loss.
Professor Jane Green, Co-Investigator on the British Election Study, was interviewed by Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin on BBC Breakfast News following the second leadership debate between Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage.
The majority owner of ConservativeHome, former Tory Treasurer and mastermind of the party's marginal seats campaign will use a review of the general election campaign to criticise the party leadership's decision to agree to election debates and to campaign on the big society theme.
From increasing engagement among «less political» demographics to bringing leaders closer to voters, the positive legacy of the BBC's leadership special shows it's time to make TV debates a core and established part of our elections in the UK.
«In the end, the choice at the election is going to come down to: who do I want to provide fresh direction and leadership for the country, rather than who scored a points victory in a debate?»
It has featured very little this year, due to the referendum and the leadership election, but Labour's disarray was on full display in the debate that was staged to coincide with May's coronation.
For his part, Mr Davis - who had led the seven - month race until the party conference in Blackpool - said he looked at the debates between them as «not just a contest for the leadership, but a preamble to us winning the next general election».
Ed Miliband was given a «brutal» dressing down by Alastair Campbell in a rehearsal for a leadership debate, according to the latest inside account of Labour's election campaign.
Owen Smith's campaign team has appealed to Momentum to get Jeremy Corbyn to agree to more debates as part of the Labour leadership election.
«It is my understanding that both campaigns were clearly informed by the General Secretary of the Labour party that broadcast debates would form part of the official leadership election timetable.
But whether this is more about asserting his standing within the party, in advance both of an anticipated reshuffle and a potential leadership election at some stage, than the national leadership Darling sought can be debated.
In an Observer article, the former Labour leader wrote: «In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment.»
Lord Mandelson today hit back at criticism over his decision to publish his memoirs during the Labour leadership election, claiming his analysis of New Labour was at its «most relevant» as the party debates its future.
He warned: «Let us remember one thing if there is a debate, if there is a leadership contest, if there is a change of leader is the British public really going to wear the Labour party carrying on in office, is it not going to ask for an immediate general election.
There will be a period of frank debate about the determination of Clegg's leadership team to stay uncritically loyal to the coalition, to stay in it to its death, and to enthuse during the election about new coalitions that were not even really on offer.
Corbyn initially stood in the British Labour leadership contest to give the party's left wing a voice in the debate on how to move on from its crushing defeat in May's general election.
[10] Also in 2007, Cameron used the website to challenge Gordon Brown to a live televised political debate as he prepared to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister, arguing the format had proved useful for discussing «serious policy issues» during the 2005 Conservative leadership election.
If in the TV debates at the next election the other parties» candidates turned on any of the current Labour leadership contenders and sneered «You're no John Kennedy», what answer would they have?»
Right now, most of the contributions to the Labour debate are coming from the part of the party that lost the leadership election.
The Labour leadership contest provides our party with an exciting opportunity to debate the future as well learn from the past and reflect on the 2010 General Election result.
In it, she reports «widespread concern among party members that this leadership election should allow the broadest possible debate».
Jones pays particular attention to Cameron's years working for Norman Lamont and Michael Howard in the 1990s (when he was covering those politicians» activities for the BBC on a daily basis) and later in the book - after dealing with the 2005 Tory leadership election, Brown replacing Blair, the political attitudes of the Murdoch press and Expenses-gate - he devotes whole chapters to both the TV debates and the role of the leaders» wives in a modern British election campaign.
I am writing to pass on widespread concern among party members that this leadership election should allow the broadest possible debate.
By taking the assumption that Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable as a given, without needing to interrogate it, commentators are then free to debate questions in terms of «Will this unelectable man win the leadership election?»
JOHN MCDONNELL: No that's true, that's why we need the debate, this leadership election is to enable us to stand back, see how far we've come over the last 10 years, see the positives, and also look at some of the negatives.
A difficult debate on leadership - election reform is looking fundamental to deciding what kind of party Labour will become.
In the leadership election, we are not choosing the chair of a discussion group who can preside over two years or more of fascinating debate while the Tories play hell with cuts in local services and public investment, extend injustice and flatlining incomes, sustain or worsen private debt, and deepen the balance - of - payments, productivity, housing and poverty deficits.
«I don't believe it is a question of deciding a credible candidate, we had an extremely good, effective, thoughtful deputy leadership election and it did the party a power of good to debate those issues debated in public and I believe if it came to that it would be the case again in the future.
Have students practice skills they've learned or topics they've come to understand in service learning, debates, leadership / volunteerism / community service, or by having opinions on «real» issues like education reform or the 2012 election (shriek!
Mr. Justice Rothstein: During the last federal election, former Prime Minister Martin surprised us all during the leadership debates by promising to abolish federal use of the Not - Withstanding Clause.